Phil Reisman: Food Bank has even more to feed

11:08 PM,
Jan. 12, 2013

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The nerve center for the hungry and undernourished in Westchester County is a large, nondescript warehouse that sits among many nondescript warehouses off Route 9A in Elmsford. It's the Food Bank for Westchester.

In a polarized world divided by competing arguments about just who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are, there is no ambiguity here: Good guys (and gals) work at the Food Bank.

In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the Food Bank distributed 6,657,981 pounds of food to 227 programs serving the poor - and there are many poor people in Westchester. Poverty is one of the county's open ...